Plant Names 
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The Garden’s Friend. 
plant. Without using botanical terms, try to de- 
scribe a plant so as to give an exact notion of it to a 
person who has never seen it, then try to find com- 
mon words to describe hundreds of plants ; you 
will then admire the vocabulary of the old herbalist, 
his^ “ fresh English words/' for you will find that it 
needs the most dextrous use of words to convey accu- 
